History Series / ANTFarm

* PutOnABus: Pretty much all the non-A.N.T.s in Season 3, after the setting moved to the Z-Tech boarding school. Only Paisley remained in the show, having gotten a job at Z-Tech, but she's [[DemotedToExtra only in a few episodes.]] Cameron guest stars in one episode when he visits the school, but after that is never seen again.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Pretty much all the characters who were not PutOnABus for Season 3 became a lot meaner and more inclined to heap abuse upon each other. The exceptions are Lexi and Paisley, who stayed pretty much the same -- though Lexi was already a {{Jerkass}} and simply didn't get any worse, and Paisley (the only non-ANT to stay in the series after the school change, having got a job at Z-tech) was DemotedToExtra and only appeared in a few episodes.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Season 3 changes the setting from a high school to a special boarding school for child prodigies run by billionaire Zoltan Grundy, thus leaving out many characters (namely Cameron, Mr. Parks, principal Skidmore, Paisley, Violet and Wacky the Wolf).

* TookALevelInJerkass: Pretty much all the characters who were not PutOnABus for Season 3 became a lot meaner and more inclined to heap abuse upon each other. The exceptions are Lexi and Paisley, who stayed pretty much the same -- though Lexi was already a {{Jerkass}} and simply didn't get any worse, and Paisley (the only non-prodigy kid to stay in the series after the school change) was DemotedToExtra and had far less screen time.

* TwoGirlsAndAGuy

* {{Expy}}: Many obvious and subtle ones are present on this show.
** Chyna comes off as a very deliberate expy of [[Series/ThatsSoRaven Raven]].
*** Chyna even has similarities to [[Series/ICarly Carly Shay]] when you consider she can sing, is ObliviousToLove from Fletcher, and has a less than normal older brother.
*** Musically talented girl who finds herself in a FishOutOfWater situation when she begins attending a new school? Chyna is essentially a younger, African-American version of [[Series/{{Victorious}} Tori Vega]].
** Olive is [[Series/HannahMontana Lilly Truscott]] as a middle schooler.
*** In "The [=ReplacemANT=]", her school teacher look makes her look like a female version of [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Mr. Denzel Crocker]].
*** She also seems a lot tougher than Chyna, and is sometimes mean to Fletcher, given who Fletcher is an expy of (see below), Olive is a more book-smart version of [[Series/ICarly Sam Puckett]] without all of the drama and binge eating. She might even live in a dysfunctional household, but not much is stated about Olive's homelife.
*** Olive even has a similar hairstyle and color to that of Sam.
*** In "[=StudANT=] Council", she shows can even [[BoastfulRap spit some fire into the M-I-C]]. Even though she didn't write the rap in-universe, she didn't sound corny. And she, much like Sam, has moderate mic skills [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy for a white girl]].
** Fletcher is basically [[Series/ICarly Freddie Benson]] reborn.
*** To a lesser extent, Fletcher is a new-age [[Series/SavedByTheBell Screech]]. He's white and nerdy, can seem a lot younger than he actually is, and has a huge crush on an African-American girl.
** Gibson is basically [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Woody]], if he was smarter and a bit less social.
*** While his similarities to Woody are mostly in appearance, Gibson behaves more like [[Series/ICarly Spencer Shay]]. Single Adult Child that hangs out with kids that don't seem to respect him very much, since [[AdultsAreUseless most of the kids are smarter and more mature than him]].
** Angus is a smarter, tech-savvy version of [[Series/ICarly Gibby]]; interestingly, both ended up being [[PromotionToOpeningTitles promoted to the opening credits]].
** Paisley is a DumbBlonde version of [[Series/{{Victorious}} Cat]].
** Violet is a little [[Series/HannahMontana Miley Stewart]] with [[Series/ICarly Sam Puckett's]] aggressiveness.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Angus to Olive is one of the rare male cases of this.
** This could also be applied to Fletcher with Chyna, but not as much.
* AccidentalArt:
** Chyna's monologue in "[=ParticipANTs=]".
** And, to a lesser degree, Chyna's song in "managemANT".

* ActingForTwo: [[invoked]]"[=MutA.N.T.=] Farm 2" features this number of Olive clones.

* AlliterativeName: Susan Skidmore.

* AlternateRealityEpisode / AllGhoulsSchool: As a Halloween Special, the first episode was re-created, but with the A.N.Ts being M.U.T.A.N.Ts, complete with monsters and all. Chyna was a Gorgon, Olive was a Mad Scientist, Fletcher was a Vampire, etc...

* AntiHero: Olive, especially in season 3.

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: PlayedForLaughs in-universe, Gibson spoke with a French accent while attempting to do a British accent.
** Chyna says that it's better than his Australian accent, which actually an Italian accent.
* AscendedExtra: Angus was ascended in season 3.
** Hashimoto is also a case of this, starting as a one-shot character from ''Suite Life'' to becoming a recurring antagonist in A.N.T. Farm.
* AssShove: Implied to have happened to Fletcher in the episode "Ballet [=dANTser=]".
* AssumedWin: Happens to Cameron in "[=ClairvoyANT=]", Principal Skidmore even sets it up by saying this person has waited patiently through ceremony while everyone else won trophies. But instead, it's Skidmore herself who wins the award. By the time he finds out, he is standing next to Wacky ready to accept his award.
** Happens to Lexi in [=EndurANTs=] when she and Paisley pose as music and art [=ANTs=], respectively, in order to win $50,000 during the ANT-Lympics. After a good performance by Lexi followed by a strange awful sounding Native song, the host says "we'll it's clear who should win this..." and Lexi walks on stage only for him to announce that the Australian team won. This causes Lexi to divulge her true identity and age, which causes Webster High to forfeit the 2nd place prize, of $49,000, ouch.
* AttentionWhore: [[AlphaBitch Lexi]] would do anything to be in the school paper, even if it means appealing to Olive, despite the fact that she generally dislikes the [=ANTs=].
** Even calls a girl, who is constantly in the school paper for doing genuinely good deeds, a publicity hog while fighting with her over a fire extinguisher. The struggle ends when she gets sprayed with said extinguisher. When Olive takes pictures of Lexi, instead of being embarrassed, Lexi begins posing for the camera.

* BadCopIncompetentCop: Darryl Parks. He isn't necessarily a dirty cop, but he doesn't follow all of the rules and he definitely abuses being an officer of the law. He is more of the imcompetent, {{played for laughs}}, PoliceAreUseless Disney version of this trope.
** He takes evidence from the station and gives the items to his kids as gifts, and not good gifts.
*** To his credit, he does pay for the evidence, Not sure if cops can do that. He otherwise plays this straight for the reasons below, but the "gifts" he gets his kids signs of [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood a completely different trope]].
** He did his marksmanship training with a fake gun made from his index finger and thumb.
** He couldn't find a note that a bank robber gave the teller during a robbery. Chyna found it in her "gift". His response, "That's where that went."
** In "[=ReplicANT=]", Cameron asks him to arrest Olive. When he asks why, Cameron replies "Oh, now you need a reason [to arrest someone?]" leading us to believe that he arrests people for any reason he can think of (or no reason) if it suits him.
** The radio dispatcher announces over the radio a 1-3-9. which Daryl says thats code for the local taco joint having burritos for only $1.39, implying that the rest of the department is just as incompetent as he is. Let's hope there isn't a truly corrupt cop in his precinct doing whatever they please and getting away with it due to everyone else's incompetence.
*** In that same episode, when he finally makes an arrest, his says it which much enthusiasm, implying that he doesn't make many arrests.
** But to his credit, in the episode "[=InformANT=]", he apparently is a detective. But that may serve the purpose of showing how bad his precinct is if he is a detective, unless he ends up being a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass.
** Even more evidence that the precinct is full of incompetent cops. In the pilot, Darryl says his meeting hosted by the Chief of Police is cancelled because the chief's car was stolen. Which hints to him having a chief similar to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Clancy Wiggum]].
** After quickly coming to the conclusion that Chyna broke Olive's toy in "Body of [=EvidANTs=]" [[spoiler:which later we find out that he was right,]] he tells Chyna "... don't worry, I won't tell anyone."
* BigBadEnsemble: Lexi Reed and Principal Susan Skidmore
** In Season 3 however, Hashimoto appears to take the BigBad mantle.

* BoardingSchool: The main setting in season 3.

* ButtMonkey: Cameron.
-->'''Cameron:''' But dad, does she have to go to my high school? I mean she's only 11.\\
'''Daryl:''' It's not Chyna's fault that she's gifted, anymore than it's your fault that you're...not.
** Virtually every character has been a Butt Monkey for at least one episode, and some episodes even feature more than one!
** Fletcher is also a major example. His talent is usually dismissed as useless and everyone treats him as an idiot. It even gets ''worse'' in Season 3, where most people treats him like he's nobody, Olive [[TookALevelInJerkass acts more aggressively toward him]], and for some reason, ''the entire country hates him''.

* CampGay: Mr. Zimbaldi, the drama teacher, and [[MeaningfulName Samuel French]] from the episode, "You're the One That I wANT".

* ChildHater: Winter Maddox.

* ComedicSociopathy: Has more of this than the other concurrent Disney Channel sitcoms.

* DeanBitterman: Susan Skidmore.

*** Lexi barely put any effort into the song for her audition, instead she seemed to try pandering to the casting director, which appeared to work. Time wasted on hindering Chyna's audition could have been spent writing a more legitimate song, or rehearsing something else. Chyna shows up the audition anyway and tells Lexi off with her weakened voice, which gets mistaken for a monologue and she gets the lead role.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Gender flipped by Chyna at the near end of the episode ''[=MeANT=] To Be?'', which implied that she wished she had a chance of fully loving Fletcher. More worse considering it's the 2nd to last episode, but luckily averted in the finale where Fletcher and Olive (her friend) broke up due that Fletcher stays in New York, but even then, Chyna still never gets a chance to love Fletcher, thus making the Flyna ship unresolved.

* TheDitz: Cameron, Gibson, Paisley, and Fletcher.
** Violet implies Angus to be this in "[=intelligANTs=]".
** GeniusDitz: Fletcher's great at art, but thinks snow angels are dead snowmen.
** Also Olive might qualify. While very book smart due to having super memory, she has very childish moments, such as believing Cameron's ghost story, having way more fun while the rest of the [=ANTs=] are playing musical chairs, and her overall naivete.

** Even more so since Angus was more or less a candy bartender at the party.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Fletcher, to Chyna.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The show's opening, "Exceptional", performed by China Anne [=McClain=]. Justified as Chyna is meant to be a musical prodigy.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Kumiko/Kennedy and Winter Maddox were this to Hashimoto in ''[=FinANTial=] Crisis''.]]

** Lexi isn't exactly a rocket scientist, but much smarter than Paisley.

* EvilLaugh: Subverted with vampire Fletcher in the Halloween episode, whose EvilLaugh is a girlish "Tee-hee-hee" while his ''normal'' laugh is easily mistaken for an evil one.
** Played Straight by Sequoia on "Creative [=ConsultANT=]". She says Chyna is suspended, then laughs. Angus does it too, but only because he doesn't get her so-called joke, but fakes it. While Olive knows something is wrong because of that and [[IdolSinger Chyna would never miss an opportunity sing live.]]
*** Later Olive and Angus find Chyna suspended [[spoiler:above a shark tank,]] and Angus realizes what she meant and does the EvilLaugh again.
* EvilTeacher: Sometimes parodied with Skidmore, who provides the page quote.

* GeniusDitz: Fletcher skipped several grades due to his artistic ability, but he thinks snow angels are dead snowmen.

* GagBoobs: It's a part of Olive's disguise in the pilot.

*** Queen Elizabeth the First.
*** Her teacher outfit in the same episode also counts.
*** A German Doctor named Ima Fraud ("pronounced Eema Frowd!").
*** A Nightclub singer circa 1930 with Yogurt-filled GagBoobs.
*** Franchise/WonderWoman.
*** A lost little girl.
*** Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe in a split-costume.
*** A Mad scientist.
*** An {{expy}} of Fletcher.
*** Cat Burglar, Chyna also and Fletcher wore an actual Catsuit.
*** Dressed as a Chinese Chef, Chyna did also.
*** Dressed as an Elf although with Fletcher. Chyna was Santa.
*** Her investigative reporter hat might also count, especially since she only wore it in that episode.
*** A Goth chick along with Agnus as an Music/OzzyOsbourne {{expy}}.
*** As a 60's backup singer (along with Violet), dressed in attire similar to that of The Supremes.
*** Dressed as UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette, the tragically famous former Queen of France.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Paisley, Lexi, China and Olive are often equally as much targets of the slapstick humor and [[AmusingInjuries injuries]] on the show as the male characters are.

* {{Irony}}: Lexi despised the A.N.T.s initially, but in Season 3, she discovers she’s a math prodigy and becomes an A.N.T. herself.

* HiddenDepths: Paisley is apparently able to build a ''functioning helicopter'' out of ''balloons''. [[UpToEleven Complete with a rope ladder. In two seconds]].

* TastesLikeDiabetes: InUniverse, Lexi's audition for the school play.
-->''"Wow, that was so sweet, I'm worried about my blood sugar!"''

%%* AntiHero: Olive, especially in season 3.

%%* AscendedExtra: Angus was ascended in season 3.

** Lexi and Paisley in "Bad [=RomANTs=]" act as if Paisley is choking so Lexi can save her life in front of Olive and get on the frontpage of the school newspaper. Lexi speaks less monotone that Paisley (who shouldn't be able to talk if she was really choking), and is pretty much [[ChewingTheScenery hamming it up]]. But definitely qualifies. However, when she accidentially causes Paisley to actually choke, she reacts in a more realistic, yet clueless, fashion to someone choking.

-->--'''Theme song'''

''A.N.T. Farm'' is a 2011 series airing on the Creator/DisneyChannel. The series follows three best friends, Chyna Parks (Music/ChinaAnneMcClain), Olive Doyle (Creator/SierraMcCormick) and Fletcher Quimby (Creator/JakeShort), who are part of the Advanced Natural Talents, or A.N.T., which allows gifted middle schoolers to go to HighSchool immediately.

!!''A.N.T. Farm'' provides examples of:

%%* AbhorrentAdmirer: Angus to Olive is one of the rare male cases of this.
%%* AccidentalArt:
%%** Chyna's monologue in "[=ParticipANTs=]".
%%** And, to a lesser degree, Chyna's song in "managemANT".

* TheCheerleader: Of both types, at that rate.

'''Olive:''' That would explain [[IAteWhat the tail]]. (she holds up a rat's tail, then shrugs and eats it anyway)

** Even more evidence that the precinct is full of incompetent cops. In the pilot, Darryl says his meeting hosted by the Chief of Police is cancelled because the chief's car was stolen. Which hints to him having a chief similar to [[TheSimpsons Clancy Wiggum]].

** On "America Needs [=TalANT=]", Lexi, upon hearing Paisley tell her she is going to be on a GameShow, tells Paisley that she is not [[Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader smarter than a 5th Grader]]. A show that the actress playing Paisley's teammate for the episode, Sierra [=McCormick=] was previously on.

%%* AbsenteeActor: Carlon Jeffery, Stefanie Scott, and Aedin Mincks are main cast members who have missed episodes.

*** A German Doctor named Ima Fraud ([[ItsPronouncedTroPAY "pronounced Eema Frowd!"]]).

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Angus to Olive is one of the rare male cases of this.
* AccidentalArt: Chyna's monologue in "[=ParticipANTs=]".
** And, to a lesser degree, Chyna's song in "managemANT".

* AntiHero: Olive, especially in season 3.

* AscendedExtra: Angus was ascended in season 3.